We keep the same number until our state redesigns the official plate. Each year, you just get new stickers to put on the old plate to update it. If you get a new car, you can pay a fee to transfer your old tags to the new car.

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In our state you keep the same license plate/number when you buy a used car. But every 3 to 5 years the state sends you a new liscense plate/number.

What I mean is that the car keeps the same plates from owner to owner, and every 3 to 5 years the state forces you to change your entire license plate. We also have to pay yearly tabs, and put the stickers on our plates each year.

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Subject: Re: License numbers. Sun Jul 20, 2008 5:45 pm

I know a family here who makes their own license plates. When I was working at the sign shop, I made a permanent version of it for them. It says "For household use only".

Apparently it is the law that you only have to license your vehicle if you are going to use it for commercial purposes. I admire them, but I do not want to have to spend hours on the side of the road, arguing with the police, which they have been known to do.

we keep the same license plate indefinitely. if we buy a new car, we put the old plate on the new car. the only thing that changes is the tag indicating each new year in the upper-righthand corner. you get that tag when you get your new registration each year [after paying the property tax on your car].